Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: Sep. 26 2009, 21:58 |
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Ugo, the strange detail about it all is that the full length Incantations clocks at 72 minutes, which fits quite easily even in the 74 minute standard. The edit on part 3 brings the running length to about 69 minutes or so. Maybe it was because players back then could mess up CDs too close to the limit -- but then again, there has been an industry standard for compact discs since the beginning, so, theoretically, any CD player necessarily had to play any CD within the Red Book standard.
Oh, heck, I dunno. Record industry executives are stupid anyway.
EDIT: I have felt for a long time that the Beethoven thing was a myth, but I was wrong, and there are plenty well documented accounts of that. The only inaccuracy in that tale is that the 74 minute long recording of Symphony No. 9 is not the von Karajan recording, but one made by Furtwängler in 1951. It was the longest recording of the symphony they had in the archives, so that was set as the minimum limit. Wikipedia says it was von Karajan's suggestion, but its sources don't confirm that...
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